Shadows of naked singularities and superspinars related to the revisited Kerr–de Sitter spacetimes
Phys. Rev. D 113, 104030 – Published 13 May, 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/rd1x-ylj2
Abstract
We construct shadows of superspinars described by the revisited Kerr–de Sitter (rKdS) naked singularity (NS) spacetimes and compare them with those of the standard KdSNS spacetimes. For all the classes of the rKdSNS spacetimes, we determine local escape cones related to a variety of fundamental frames: locally nonrotating frames (LNRFs), radially escaping frames, and circular geodesic frames related to marginally stable obits of the rKdSNS spacetimes. The local escape cones (and their complementary cones) are then applied to construct the shadow of the KdS superspinars related to the distant static observers represented by the LNRFs, located near the so-called static radius, where the spacetime is close to the asymptotically flat region of the Kerr spacetimes, or the superspinars radially approaching, due to the Universe’s expansion, the cosmic horizon of the spacetime. Differences of the shadows in the rKdSNS and standard KdSNS spacetimes are established and demonstrated for sufficiently large values of the dimensionless cosmological constant. For the observationally given cosmological constant and masses of the largest objects in the Universe, the shadow differences are not observable using recent observational instruments.
